I love when boomers put various pieces of old garden hose around them, and braggin bout how much money they saved...NIGGER, IT LOOKS GHETTO AS FUCK!
Oh man, that's just one of MANY ridiculous things those kind of people do to their poor boats.
My biggest pet peeve: wearing a white Captain's hat with gold anchor, but unironically https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/WXsAAOxyUrZSoHfn/s-l300.jpg
I wore that A LOT as a little kid, dreaming about being a real boat captain someday.
Funny how I never have one now as a real one... Maybe I need one!!
But then, even the stupid greek fisherman's cap seemed like a preposterous affectation, and even the sea gods agreed and blew it off my head while sailing in a good stiff breeze. Out man overboard drills that day did not manage to save that stupid hat! So I chocked it up to it being inappropriate attire.
I find a decent straw hat serves well enough, and if lost overboard, floats well enough for a retarded man overboard drill. But after being rescued, starts falling apart pretty retardedly after a salt water bath. But I'm still wearing the last one that happened to right now. I can smush it down onto my head real well to make it stay there while sanding and varnishing, at least.
--replacing a perfectly functional tiller with a complicated wheel-and-pulley system, if the boat is under 40 feet long...
NIGGER, do you really wanna be spinnin the wheel back and forth a thousand times just to back out of the slip? NIGGER, PLEASE!!!
Dumb fucking kids!
STAY OFF MY FUCKING HULL-LAWN!
...but my boat came that way. There's a perfectly good rudder shaft right there for a tiller. I need to get rid of my steering gear and put that there...
...but it's all awesome, with a bronze rack and pinion, with a massive sprocket system there in place belowdeck. Dumb hong kong trying to appeal to this nonsense! But the binnacle is SO NICE! And the steering is pretty excellent... but not like with a tiller, to be sure!
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